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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Review: Susan Cain, Quiet

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This book kept appearing on Waterstone's tables and in the end I succumbed. My first reaction was one of surprise: Introversion...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Review: Jane Fallon, Skeletons - and a few remarks on Style

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I doubt that men of an age to have liver spots are among the intended readers of this book. Indeed, the book’s Leading Bad Guy  is ju...
Sunday, 11 May 2014

Review: Jennie Rooney, Red Joan

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I picked up this book for a peculiar reason: the story of Red Joan draws partly on the real-life story of Melita Norwood who - some ...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

Review: J.M.Coetzee, the Life of Jesus

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“Something’s Missing” “This sentence, which is in Mahagonny, is one of the most profound sentences that Brecht ever wrote and it is...

Review: Jim Crace, Harvest

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Lebensraum for sheep - that was a major aim of England’s Enclosure movement which cleared the countryside of people and replaced the...
Thursday, 24 April 2014

Film Review: NOAH (Daniel Aronofsky)

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It's some time since I went to the cinema and even longer since I went to an Odeon in Leicester Square. It didn't take me long to re...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Essay: Some Doubts about Universities and the Humanities

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I have always had my doubts about universities. If you take the long view, they have rarely encouraged scientific enquiry or tolerance of...
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